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BigTrout75, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

Translated: Adults 18 to 25 are using there parents healthcare and are not paying for the crappiest healthcare being offered at their first jobs.

sp3tr4l, do games w 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action

Here at NZXT, we strive to deliver the best products and services to customers, but sometimes, we don’t fulfill that desire.

Sure, we spent thousands upon thousands of man hours intentionally designing a pc rental service to rent out falsely advertised, subpar pcs, at stupendously high cost to you, our loyal customers…

And sure, we’re only issuing this statement because we got caught, and even while apologizing, we are heavily qualifying our actions and emphasizing things we think we so well…

But what is most important is that we want you to know:

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/e688a71a-bea1-4e88-a044-21a6c7c6dd98.webp

Duamerthrax, do games w 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

I. Do. Not. Care. About. The. Tech.

Gabe, you created an obligation when you ended Episode 2 on a cliff hanger. You should have just let Marc Laidlaw and the game devs just make more games.

As long as it had kept the core writers, I’m sure everyone would be happy. Hell, any “innovation” is being handled by the modding continuity. Breadman of Entropy: Zero created a more fun combat loop then any of the HL2 games have. Singularity has a better physics weapons just by being able to use it independent of the selected weapon and making the object transparent.

SirEDCaLot,

I. Do. Not. Care. About. The. Tech.

Exactly. The tech doesn’t matter. Tech only exists in service of the gameplay, and (introduced with HL1), the story (previous to HL1 the ‘story’ of most games was just a quick blurb on why there’s monsters and why you have to shoot them).

Gamers DGAF about new tech. Gamers wanted to be told a story. We LOVED the story.

Valve could’ve used the existing engine, built NOTHING AT ALL NEW, and just finished the story with existing assets and we’d all have been over the moon happy.

Duamerthrax, (edited )

You know, I knew the next HL game to come out after Ep2 would be a VR title. It was the most obvious direction Valve could go considering Gabe treats the HL series as a tech demo. Seriously, I think out of anyone at Valve, he has the least respect for the franchise. What I didn’t predict that it would a a VR exclusive title and that it would retcon the ending of Ep2 so a character that died(and who’s VA had died), would be alive again. Hell, they didn’t even ask one of the MC’s original VA to reprise her role(or cast into a different character if the age was an issue).

I have way more trust in the fan community to continue the story. Entropy: Zero took some cues from Epistle 3, so I hope the breadman and the Project Borealis are sharing notes, so the can have a shared continuity. I really, really liked the voiced MC of Entropy: Zero and the combat loop, with more enemy types and weapons was superb.

SkunkWorkz,

Unfortunately devs at Valve eventually will be swallowed by the money making machine called Steam. It’s the way the company is structured, the people working on the most profitable projects are rewarded the most.

Like the team working on In the Valley of Gods has disintegrated after Valve bought Campo Santo. The devs are all working on other things inside Valve.

Duamerthrax,

I think that’s the thing that annoys me the most. Sometimes, a game doesn’t get a sequel because sales were bad or the studio was bought out or even went bankrupt. Here, it’s just because the guy running the company doesn’t feel like it. They have a constant stream of free money from Steam sales to fall back on, so why not just let your game devs do something? I haven’t kept up to date, but wasn’t there this huge gap of time where none of the TF2 devs had logged and played any TF2?

Blizzard, do gaming w It only took two days for someone to unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's modding tools, opening up the possibility of custom levels and campaigns

I wonder how long will it take for modders to recreate BG1&2 in BG3.

Stanley_Pain,
@Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m pretty sure that was already in the works before the mod tools were even talked about

SapphironZA, do gaming w 2K removes its pointless launcher from Civilization 6, while also announcing that Civilization 7 players will never have to suffer launching the game twice for no reason

Take2 is blacklisted for me, for stealing early access money from kerbal space program 2 and then cancelling it, while still accepting money for it.

I have owned every Civ from 1 to 6.

The franchise is now dead to me until Take2 is replaced.

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  • SapphironZA,

    Yep, civ 2 is my all time favourite.

    asexualchangeling,

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  • SapphironZA,

    I think the moral consensus is, if you own it, it’s not piracy.

    Media owners only want you to think that.

    They abandoned it, you did not.

    notgold,
    @notgold@aussie.zone avatar

    The fact I can’t play civ6 without accepting changed terms means I won’t pay for civ 7 or buy any dlc. for a game I play by myself, that I’ve owned since launch, and 2k have removed my ability to play any more is just the fucked thing about modern games

    Railcar8095, do gaming w Tarkov studio claims it actually doesn't have the server capacity for everyone who bought the game for $150 to play its upcoming PvE mode, still wants players to pay extra

    If only there was a way for dedicated fans to run their own servers for PVE co-op with friends…

    HeavyRaptor,

    Is there?

    GooseFinger,

    SPT with MPT mod.

    Railcar8095,

    No. And considering how they are gatekeeping the feature behind a 250$ purchase, it is very lucrative for them to keep it that way. Unless shit hits the fan and the players decide they won’t pay.

    HeavyRaptor,

    Apparently there is! There is a mod for SPT called MPT (now renamed to fika). It has a github but the download is only available through their discord. Took me a while to find it. Gonna see if we can get it working tomorrow.

    _sideffect, do gaming w Ubisoft is stripping people's licences for The Crew weeks after its shutdown, nearly squandering hopes of fan servers and acting as a stark reminder of how volatile digital ownership is

    Lmao, fuck licenses; pirate it, and we’ll make our own servers.

    They can’t do shit then

    wreckedcarzz,
    @wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

    Afaik nobody has cracked it as it’s always-online, though I’d be happily incorrect about this is one can slide me some sauce. I’m one of the affected players in the shutdown (still play occasionally) so the ability to continue playing this game would be very nice.

    redcalcium,

    Afaik there is no crack for The Crew because it stored your progress on ubisoft’s server and has no local save data.

    DestroyMegacorps,

    So if we need to somehow pirate it we need to break ubisoft drm and rediect the calls for savedata that are supposed to be sent to the servers to a local storage

    redcalcium, (edited )

    There is a possibility that the game actually has a hidden “production mode” where it allows offline play. Make sense though because the game developers must be able to run the game during production where the server hasn’t been up yet. Research into the possibility of reenabling this mode in retail build seems to be losing steam though. Looks like it picked up some steam again: steamcommunity.com/app/…/4306075118785997064/

    rollerbang,

    It can’t not have local save data. It can delete it at exit, sure, but it needs it to load the game properly. Save game extraction might be more complex, but it is still sent to the local machine.

    Unless it’s a streamed game of course.

    redcalcium,

    Seems like it.

    Save Game Dumper now available

    steamcommunity.com/app/…/4306075118785997064/

    seliaste,
    @seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    There are cracks that managed this tho Nfs:World and wangan midnight comes to mind

    Endorkend, do games w A heroic Starfield modder just straight-up deleted those repetitive temple 'puzzles' from the game
    @Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

    All game content and story issues aside, what pisses me of the most is that a month after release, we still only had a microscopic amount of bugfixes that don't even address some of the larger issues with the game.

    I don't want to bring up BG3 again, but at this timespan after the game release, Larian already fixed THOUSANDS of bugs, big and small and overall, the game was much less obviously buggy than Starfield is. It's issues were more inconsistencies in logic and a handful of quest breakers, but otherwise not even noticeable until you read the patch notes.

    It's crazy to me there's so little action from Bethesdas side in fixing this heap. I guess it rolls into their bullshit PR of pushing for Awards (they are literally looking to get a Grammy ...) and saying the game is nigh on perfect.

    Seasoned_Greetings,

    When has Bethesda ever released patches to fix anything short of game breaking bugs? And even then more often than not they don’t fix those.

    I mean, some of the most popular mods for fallout 4 and skyrim were community patches. I’m not saying I agree with that practice, just that this is par for the (shitty) course for Bethesda. Starfield probably won’t be an actually good game until there are thousands of mods for it.

    CitizenKong,

    Yeah, people tend to forget how shitty Skyrim was at launch. It was completely unplayable on PS3 for literal months.

    Pxtl,
    @Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

    I’d wager technical debt is the reason. It’s no secret that Bethesda’s engine is bad. Bad code makes it harder to do bug-fixes, because it’s harder to find the root cause of things and the risks of having accidental side-effects is far higher. There’s only so many hacks and emergency fixes you can slap into a codebase before it becomes a house of cards that collapses if you breathe on it the wrong way.

    CommanderCloon,

    Hopefully having MS money will allow them to take the time to learn/create a new engine, it already showed its limits in Skyrim

    caseyweederman,

    Yeah because Windows is definitely a flawless product

    Fraylor,

    Might be a shot in the dark here, but a game engine seems like it would be different than an operating system.

    caseyweederman,

    Oh
    so sorry
    You get the “technically correct but missed the point” award

    ChronosWing,

    You’re the one who brought up Windows where it had no place. They said MS money not MS OS developers.

    caseyweederman,

    And the MS OS developers are backed by…?

    ChronosWing,

    Once again nothing to do with Bethesda. You just want to shit on MS because “MS bad!”.

    Fraylor,

    I forgot Lemmy is a continuous Linux circlejerk, my bad.

    DarkMetatron,

    The engine is what makes the games so great though, no other engine I know is so flexible and open for mods, while at the same time can keep states for huge numbers of game objects that can be manipulated and moved freely in the whole Game world. Yes it has limitations but I am happy to live with those in exchange for what it enables. It is more then a fair trade in my eyes.

    okamiueru,

    Why does this piss you off? Do you make a habit of getting angry at very predictable things? They’ve always done this.

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    “This is the way it’s always been done” is also the same rhetoric bigots use to justify racism. Just because Bethesda has always sucked ass doesn’t mean anyone likes it or wants them to continue to suck ass.

    okamiueru, (edited )

    What the fuck are you on about? I’m not defending Bethesda. I’m saying that if a company makes games with the exact same kind of flaws every time - getting upset when they do it again suggests the issue might be with the inability to make basic inference.

    It’s like if you don’t like chocolate, buy a bar of chocolate, and going “Gah! This one has chocolate too!”.

    They didn’t rewrite the creation engine. It’s going to have the same feeling and issues as other games made with that engine. It wouldn’t have to be this way if they had done a good job. But, they don’t seem to have to do that for a lot of people to enjoy their games. But being surprised by it? Nah, that’s on you (figuratively)

    Kolanaki,
    !deleted6508 avatar

    Nobody is saying they were surprised by it; they’re saying they are disappointed in it.

    okamiueru,

    Being disappointed requires unmet expectation. “Surprised”. Why don’t you pick a word you prefer that conveys unmet expectations? I think you know perfectly well what I mean. And if you don’t, then, well, I’m not here to argue.

    ILikeBoobies,

    Larian needs a good reputation to sell

    Bethesda has a bad reputation and still sells so they don’t need to fix it. Their reputation is to make games with the things you outlined specifically

    samus12345,
    @samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

    Larian also just gives a fuck about putting out a quality game.

    Jakeroxs,

    Can confirm, Divinity 1 and 2 and both fantastic and got free massive content updates

    Squizzy,

    I got Hogwarts game the other day and there are known bug affecting gameplay for months. That fucking shield flashing up constantly is painful.

    Cethin,

    I’m almost certain most of the team went on vacation after launch. However, that should probably be over by now and there still hasn’t been much of anything as far as I’m aware.

    thorbot,

    Please explain the larger issues with the game. I have like 50 hours into it and the only things I’ve noticed were 1 glitched quest (Madam Devine won’t progress, which was fixed with 1 command) and some companion bonuses not applying. Also my chameleon-wearing companion’s head would remain invisible sometimes! But largely the game has played well. It’s great to bitch and moan but what actual bugs are you talking about, because personally I haven’t seen them!

    abraxas,

    I’ve noticed exactly 2 issues so far myself.

    1. Rarely, outposts can become unbuildable. You have to save and reload
    2. The bounty system is slightly more jank than I’m used to. Sometimes I’ll get a 15000 bounty for a stealth kill while unseen - those 15000 bounties never go away from witness death. Other times a 650 bounty that immediately goes away from “last witness died”. I had to save-scum a pirate ship because it happened with some specific folks, and I solved it by chucking a grenade into the bridge. I commented elsewhere, grenades are super-stealth and you usually get away with throwing a grenade in full view in a crowded room if you can hide before it blows up.

    I’d like to see #2 fixed/improved, but honestly don’t mind either very much.

    PoopMonster,

    I had to use a cheat and kill a achievements because into the unknown was bugged. Where the temple should have spawned there was a mining rig and the scanner never distorted. It’s a pretty common issue reported over and over again on their discord (which is a freaking horrible way to deal with support BTW). And then on the final quest one of the mini bosses clipped through an elevator and I had to wait like 10 mins while he decided to teleport behind me.

    slaneesh_is_right, do games w Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

    Half a year’s work takes 6 months? I had no idea

    SkyezOpen,

    Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

    vandsjov,

    Two minutes silence for every minute

    fennesz12,

    This still cracks me up even though I heard it so many years ago

    Thcdenton, do games w Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot
    @Thcdenton@lemmy.world avatar

    Always pirate blizzard

    teawrecks, do gaming w 'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled'

    I wouldn’t say that past generations wanted to be marketed to, it’s just that before the internet, marketing was the closest a customer could get to being spoken to by a brand.

    And at some point in the history of marketing, I think companies used to see it that way too, marketing was a means of communicating with potential customers what your product offered. But as capitalism progressed, and media outlets expanded (print, radio, film, TV, etc.), honesty was optimized out in favor of “bamboozleism”.

    It’s now easier than ever for a brand to have a direct, two-way conversation with their customers at any time, but marketers are still stuck in that 20th century mindset of “we just say whatever we want, and you just accept it”. The internet is in the process of popping that bubble.

    nix,

    Largely agree. I think the bamboozlers were there the whole time - after all, a lot of early radio was for propaganda purposes. But I do think most companies try to do things the right way, and there was a point when marketing was seen as simple outreach.

    Moonguide,

    I work in the industry, and yeah. Before, marketing was based on utility. “Buy this because it can do this and this and that”, basically marketing how effective or what it can actually do for you. Around the 50s (in the US) marketing changed to be based around lifestyle. “Buy this so you can be this”. Now nearly all ads appeal to emotion instead of reason, and it is very effective.

    Researching about what a product offers is so much harder than just buying on a whim because the ads and the product are colorful.

    You can see this change in old (really old) newspapers. Ad spreads were chock full of text about features. Now 3/4ths of the ads are an image of a happy woman if marketed for gals, or a stoic muscly man if marketed for guys.

    Gives me the ick.

    mindbleach,

    Limbic capitalism. The product will make you happy. Only the product will make you happy.

    gravitas_deficiency,

    The act of purchasing the product will make you happy.

    Subscribe now to receive happiness for a monthly subscription fee of $14.99. Or, save 18% by paying $149.99 for the whole year!

    mindbleach,

    THX 1138 gets home and throws out the widget.

    y0kai, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

    Lmfao what free healthcare?

    A_Random_Idiot,

    Seriously. I’d love some free healthcare.

    I’d probably be able to be more functional if I had proper healthcare.

    This whole thing of “Free healthcare = leeches” is fucking insulting.

    MoreZombies, do games w 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

    Another instance of Jagex being fucked. The cycle continues.

    derpgon, do games w 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

    At this point I am just expecting Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2

    billwashere,

    Then Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2; Chapter 2

    lunar17,

    Valve is asymptotically approaching episode three. Always getting closer, but never quite reaching it.

    Flamekebab,
    @Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

    Manchester United: 3

    ms_lane,

    : 3

    ByteOnBikes, do games w Ubisoft boss says it knows players think it has an 'inconsistency in quality,' so it delayed Assassin's Creed Shadows to flip that script

    Ubisoft games have such a weird “design by committee” feel to it. Like they poll the internet every few weeks and make decisions off of that. New hot game has battle pass? WE HAVE BATTLE PASS.

    They also seem to follow a checklist of mediocrity. Every game needs a dozen collectable items. Every game needs to have the same l types of quests that GTA3 had. Every game has to have a massive open world. Every game needs a online component and live service. Every game needs a incredible hook, which then they Marvel-safe it to avoid offending online babies.

    Their games come off with 7/10 energy. Ubisoft games don’t move the needle. They’re pretty adequate as a game. But when I have thousands of games to choose from every year… Ill pass.

    Katana314,

    They CAN still be fun. General fact of the matter is that the games we find fun aren’t always necessarily innovating much. Sometimes it’s just a comfortable routine.

    Absolutely not going to fault anyone that finds their games boring though.

    ByteOnBikes,

    7/10 doesn’t mean it sucks. Just means adequate.

    I played the Division 2, Ac Valhalla and FarCry 6 for 100+ hours. They helped me during the worse times of the pandemic.

    But if I was talking to friends or making recommendations, we’d be taking about games that are better than that. The Elden Rings or the Ghost of Tsushima

    ryathal,

    I think the problem is that they use the same open world formula that they started, but others have taken and improved it and they haven’t kept up with the times. Shadow of Mordor/war scratch the same itsch as assassin’s creed with more interesting mechanics. Those aren’t even new games at this point. Horizon zero dawn and forbidden West offer a more action focused experience with a better open world, again not super modern games.

    It’s like Bethesda, they are still putting out games that are straight from 2010.

    Uruanna,

    Shadow of Mordor/war scratch the same itsch as assassin’s creed

    ??? It’s the first time I’m hearing Shadow of Mordor allows you to run around famous places in ultra popular historical periods.

    ryathal,

    What’s more iconic than Mordor?

    SkyezOpen,

    Helms deep honestly.

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